Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce has secured contract extensions worth nearly £100m to provide ongoing support for engines on the RAF’s C-130 Hercules transport and VC10 tanker fleets. The firm is part of a consortium which also includes Marshall Aerospace of the UK and US giant Lockheed Martin which will provide...
Bedminster is get a share of £1.2m in Government funding under a pilot scheme recommended by retail guru Mary Portas to revitalise the UK’s high streets. The South Bristol suburb is one of 12 centres chosen as first-round winners. Among the ideas likely to be tried out in Bedminster...
Bristol tensile construction specialists Base Structures is helping create a unique walkway across the rooftop of London's 02 Arena which will give visitors spectacular views across the capital. The 'Up at The O2 experience', due to open by June 21, features a tensile cable and fabric walkway over the...
Bristol café entrepreneurs and chefs Mike Merelie and Evan Roberts have opened their second Whisk! café. . . in the unusual setting of a graveyard. The chefs launched their first café at the Knowle West Health Park just before Christmas and have now taken over the reins from volunteers...
Bristol-based serviced apartment company SACO, which now has properties in 31 UK locations, has opened a new collection of studio and one-bedroom accommodation in London, increasing the number of its own operated locations to 14 across the capital. Red Lion Court, just off Fleet Street, is the company's second...
Bristol-based car and motor cycle dealers Drive Motor Retail have managed to stay in the fast lane despite the recession, pushing sales past the £200m mark in what they describe as a “difficult” year, notching up increases in new, fleet and used vehicle sales. The company was set by Paul Manning...
Shares in Hydro International plunged by a fifth earlier today after the water technology firm warned of lower first-half financial results. The shares rallied following its annual general meeting at lunchtime and were 12.5% lower by mid-afternoon. The Clevedon company, which has developed a range of technologies to control urban run...
Bristol’s bid to become 2014 European Green Capital has been boosted by local ethical business Natracare, which has pledged £1,000 sponsorship for a charity bike ride to the current Green Capital, Vittoria-Gasteiz in Spain. Making the 1,182 km trek will be Rollo Lewis, co-founder of Bedminster-based green design agency Green...
The UK slumped deeper into recession than initially thought in the first three months of this year as the construction industry continued to underperform, bleak figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed today. The ONS said the economy shrank by 0.3% between January and March, more than...
Bristol-based firework company Skyburst staged a spectacular display on Clifton Suspension Bridge as the Olympic flame crossed. The company, with bases in Upper Langford and Bedminster, fired red, white and blue streamers from the bridge as torchbearers Rebecca Pantaney and Tom Baker ran across. The show, which cost £7,500 to stage, was...
Bristol-based Milk Link, the UK’s leading dairy farmer co-operative, has announced a proposed merger with Arla Foods Amba, a giant European dairy co-operative owned by Danish, Swedish and German dairy farmers. If approved, the merger will create the UK dairy market’s largest player – processing more than 3bn litres...
Bristol’s International Balloon Fiesta won Bronze for Best Tourism Event of the Year at last night’s prestigious VisitEngland Awards for Excellence. The fiesta was shortlisted after scooping the award in the regional heats earlier this year. Now in its 34th year, the event generates £13m for the local economy...
Veteran Bristol oil industry entrepreneur David Bramhill has parted company with Wessex Exploration, the Bristol-based hydrocarbon prospecting company he helped float on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market last year. In a statement today Wessex said he had resigned as non-executive chairman with immediate effect, adding that it would “like...
